THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1961.
CHOU ACCUSES U.S.
PROGRESS IN
LAOS
U.S. REPORT ON HK
REFUGEES
Washington, July 12.
The United States Committee for Refugees today reported that there are now about 15,181,000 refugees in the world. Of these more than 1.1 million aro from Mainland China liv- ing in overcrowded Hongkong.
FLOOD WATERS
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TEAR THROUGH TOWN STREETS
Seoul, July 13.
The South Korean Red Cross said at least 114 persons died when flood waters burst one dam on Wednesday and threatened to smash through a second 150 miles south of Seoul,
The Red Cross mid 13 persons were missing and the death
tell might go hither in the vicinity of Numwon, one of Bree towns flooded when the
- concrete irrigation dom
earth and Myun
under pressure
torrential r
SANDBAGS
Jebak
broke
days of
Around 1,000 wesidents varly on Thursday w.re reported feverishly piling sandbags against second beleaguered dam, the To Chun, even closer to the populated area.
About
175 houses WATA smashed or washed away when lons of muddy water tore through the Tebak Myun dam, the Red Cross said,
The Red Cross said it was rushing food and clothing to the reinute stricken area, with a pupulation of 38,000. Sketchy reports indicated sovere hard- ship.
ÚS, Army headquarters and Korean police in Scoul suid they had no information
the
on the
disaster. Sources al water scene reported neur-total confusion and terror.-AP.
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Manila, July 12. Seven people were killed and 18 seriously hurt when a bus plunged into a ravine Union Province, Northern Luzon, Yas night, the Philip- pine News Service reported.
The agency said villagers whi arrived at the scene before the polke Jooted the bus of cash and valuables--Reuter.
SPEED LIMITS
ILLEGAL SINCE 1936
New York, July 12. Dismayed New Yo State Traffic Commlastou officials discovered yester. day that hundreds of thou- sands of motorists had been wrongly convicted of speed. ing in the past 25 years.
The Stalo Court of Appeals ruled last Friday that a motorist caught speeding in the little village of Great Western wrongly convicted because the Commission had nat fled the order imposing D speed Kmit in the łown
was
with New York's general recording officer.
Today
Commission oficinis discovered thai orders none of the 2,500 made since 1930 imposing speed limits in rural town- ships had ever been filed.
Titis means that Any motorist convicted under these orders can have the conviction expunged from Els record provided he goes lo couri and obtains an order reversing it.—China Mall Special.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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11 Flavouring.
15 He's got it.
17 Sookes and Ladders almost!
19 Bo corrosive.
21 Covers,
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Cals, 4 Tusk, 6 Mesh, 8 Opus, 11 Anew, 13 Despise, 14 Has, 10 Tamen, 18 Tusks. 21 Kinis 22 Steer, 24 Dec, 23 Descend, 28 Pegs, 30 Ergo, 31 Bata, Lamb, 30 Anon. Down: 1, Clod, a Thus, 3 Deusi, 4 The, o X, 7 Break, 8 Portune, 10 Spike, 12 Whon, 1s Askide, 17 Minice, 19 Step; 20 Sedge, 23 Resi, 24 Dowl, 26 Erin, 27 Down, 20 Ebo
The Committee added more refugees are arriving In the Colony at the rate of some 900 per week.
An annual audit for the fiscal year ending June 30 showed that some progress was made in refugee resettlement, partk- cularly in Europe.
But It was offset by migrations uf refugees from Cubn, the Congo, Angola And by the con-
refugees from Unl East
and Laos.
tinuing influx of Communist Chinn Germany.
new
It said the U.S. government spent about U.S.$76 initiion on refugee relief programmes daring the past year, of which about half was in the form of surplus farm commodities,
Slightly fewer than 3,000 r fugees from Europe were a
mitted to this country on parole
status.
SUMMARY
Here is a summary of other major refugee situations:
the
Europe-About 13,000 re- fugees, many of them homeless since World War II. are sili! Hving in camps under jurisdiction of the United Na- tions. West Germany is caring for about 3. million refugees from Communist East Germany, of whom 300,000 are in camps,
Congo-about 300,000 Baluba tribesmen have been displaced from their homes, and 75,000 fugitives from the strife-ridden Portuguese colony of Angola also have fled into the Congo.
Middle East-about 1 million Arab refugees from Palentine are huddled in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.~-~ UPI.
Hawaii chosen home port for Polaris subs
Washington, July 12. The U.S. Navy today solected Pearl Harbour, Hawaii, as the home port for Polaris submarines of the Pacific
Fleet,
A second Preifle overhat:1 yard will be established at Puget Sound In Washington.
John B. Connally, Secretary of
the Navy, announced his deci- sion in a letter Senator Orer. E. Long of Hawail.
Connally said the Navy would establish at Pearl Harbour
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